And so, the world outside is currently covered in snow. And that raises 
a very important question: How do spiders survive this weather?

As far as I know, there's only one multicellular animal that can survive 
actually being frozen solid. (It's a small frog that lives in the Andes. 
Every winter it freezes solid, yet in the spring when it thaws it's 
miraculously still alive.) Normally the growing ice crystals rip through 
cell membranes, killing the organism.

Given that the world outside is under about 5 cm of snow right now, with 

invertabrat with no capacity for heat generation remains alive. But 
alive they somehow remain...

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